Cards of Support for Michelle Tharp

[ScotKaren]

Please send cards of support to Michelle and let her know her good friend Paul asked people to send them:)

michelle tharp, OF6593, PO Box180, Muncy, PA17756, USA

[annadunner]

I think "support" is an odd thing to offer Michelle Tharp. I have been absolutely haunted by her daughter's death for years. I remember that day when the news showed footage of people looking for Tausha in the woods near the Fort Steuben Mall. I remember when they found her body bagged in plastic and tossed into a bush like garbage in West Virginia. I remember when we heard that the 8 year old weighed under 12 pounds, that she'd consumed her own finger nails seeking nutrition, that she'd been beaten for stealing the dog's food from it's bowl and for trying to drink out of the toilet to to quench her thirst. I remember! I remember and I just cannot forgive.

I cannot say the child's name, even after all these years without crying. How have you all gotten past what she did? How do you find compassion for someone who did things that Hollywood doesn't even put in horror movies? How do you lend support to someone who had food, and had water and didn't give them to her own child? How do you have sympathy for someone who ate while her starving child could smell the food and cried to have just a bite, just enough to keep her from dying. How do you do that?

Before you tell me that I've not walked in her shoes, let me remind you that I've not walked on cloven hooves either. Yes, I put that mother on par with Satan. I don't care what happened to her, I don't care what damaged her to that point. She is EVIL, and callus and a monster. She is lonely in prison. And I am haunted by thoughts of her daughter's suffering. I wish I could give her that empathy I feel for her child as that would surely be worse than any physical prison.